General Science Discussion Thread!

We can't be the only life forms in the entire universe, which are composed of billions and billions of galaxies, which host gazillions of stars, which in turn, host plenty of planets.

The Hubble Deep Space image, below, is amazing and breath-taking. Just look at how much galaxies are there. Yet, this is just an incredibly tiny portion of the night sky. According to wikipedia, it is "one 24-millionth of the whole sky, which is equivalent in angular size to a 65 mm tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres."

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Xanthium said:
Speaking of which, who believes in Alien life forms?
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I certainly believe in life outside of Earth. As my sister pointed out, even if the chances are slim, there are SO many opportunities for the chances to roll. Just look at that Hubble Deep Field. Oh my.
 
Baby Luigi said:
Xanthium said:
In that case, what guided this something who guided us?
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Nothing, chances and probability brought us here. We're one among a mind-boggling amount of worlds in this universe anyway.
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Wonder how everyone will react when we find out the truth of our origins.
 
ernesth100 said:
Wonder how everyone will react when we find out the truth of our origins.
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You mean the truth that we descended from apes?
 
ernesth100 said:
Baby Luigi said:
ernesth100 said:
Wonder how everyone will react when we find out the truth of our origins.
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You mean the truth that we descended from apes?
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Please. If we descended from apes? Why are there still apes?!
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That's like asking why are there lizards when there are birds?
 
ernesth100 said:
Baby Luigi said:
ernesth100 said:
Wonder how everyone will react when we find out the truth of our origins.
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You mean the truth that we descended from apes?
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Please. If we descended from apes? Why are there still apes?!
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...Because evolution isn't animals suddenly morphing into completely new animals. Through a gradual process, humans and apes branched off from a common, ape-like ancestor because they gained characteristics better suited for survival and lost those that threatened it.
 
---- I think I worded my statement badly

We are apes, aren't we?
 
Thats just ridiculous are you saying the other apes refused to evolve? And if so if they did refuse to evolve. It's been centuries. Why haven't they decided to adapt in a world that is clearly much more dangerous for animals than it is for humans?
 
ernesth100 said:
Thats just ridiculous are you saying the other apes refused to evolve? And if so if they did refuse to evolve. It's been centuries. Why haven't they decided to adapt in a world that is clearly much more dangerous for animals than it is for humans?
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1. The way you worded it sounds like animals have an explicit choice to evolve
2. We're totally different species from our relatives, they adapt accordingly to their environment, which is why we're different.
3. Natural selection says what the other animals have is fine for them. What dictates natural selection is the ability to reproduce effectively and efficiently.
 
*Sigh*
*Puts thumb and index finger in between eye's. Shakes head in aggrivation.*

I say to you ince again this is ridiculous. If we evolved from apes what did apes evolve from? Don't say fish! Don't say germs!
 
A common ancestor. We are apes that responded to the environment differently (or whose environment was different, requiring a different response) than other apes. There's a reason we're not in a taxonomical classification by ourselves.
 
Junketsu said:
A common ancestor. We are apes that responded to the environment differently (or whose environment was different, requiring a different response) than other apes. There's a reason we're not in a taxonomical classification by ourselves.
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That actually applies to my God is a Programmer Theory when you think about it. You see if we did evolve from ape's the could've been Beta versions of humans God was testing out and gradually overtime began to Update some while others were beyond repair and remained apes.
 
ernesth100 said:
Junketsu said:
A common ancestor. We are apes that responded to the environment differently (or whose environment was different, requiring a different response) than other apes. There's a reason we're not in a taxonomical classification by ourselves.
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That actually applies to my God is a Programmer Theory when you think about it. You see if we did evolve from ape's the could've been Beta versions of humans God was testing out and gradually overtime began to Update some while others were beyond repair and remained apes.
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That's. Not. How. Evolution. WORKS.
 
Ernesth, I don't think you're helping your point.

One thing I always ponder is the beginning. If there is evolution, then where did the first living things come from? I'm not saying that I don't believe in evolutionism (as I actually believe in both creationism and evolutionism), but it's one of those questions I always ponder.

Just like how I question what is the outer reaches of our Universe. It always very interesting to think about if our universe is expanding just what is it expanding into? I know that there is a lot of Dark Matter in the universe, and some anti-matter as well, but it really get's your brain thinking. I know a few believe that beyond the Universe are the Multiverses, but it's wondering what is beyond them.
 
ernesth100 said:
Junketsu said:
A common ancestor. We are apes that responded to the environment differently (or whose environment was different, requiring a different response) than other apes. There's a reason we're not in a taxonomical classification by ourselves.
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That actually applies to my God is a Programmer Theory when you think about it. You see if we did evolve from ape's the could've been Beta versions of humans God was testing out and gradually overtime began to Update some while others were beyond repair and remained apes.
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...What?

BMB, we don't know how life got here (one theory I've heard before is that it was brought here from space via meteor/comet collisions with the Earth in its formative years), though you must understand that evolution is not a creation theory. It does not explain how life got here, only what happened to it once it did (which continues to happen now).
 
i think a lot about how matter came to exist, and if there is a god, how that god came to exist, and then i lay on the ground and look up into the sky, and decide it doesn't really matter to my existence.
 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat02.html

Where We Came From
1. Did we evolve from monkeys?
Humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans are more closely related to modern apes than to monkeys, but we didn't evolve from apes, either. Humans share a common ancestor with modern African apes, like gorillas and chimpanzees. Scientists believe this common ancestor existed
5 to 8 million years ago. Shortly thereafter, the species diverged into two separate lineages. One of these lineages ultimately evolved into gorillas and chimps, and the other evolved into early human ancestors called hominids.
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Human Evolution

2. How did humans evolve?
Since the earliest hominid species diverged from the ancestor we share with modern African apes, 5 to 8 million years ago, there have been at least a dozen different species of these humanlike creatures. Many of these hominid species are close relatives, but not human ancestors. Most went extinct without giving rise to other species. Some of the extinct hominids known today, however, are almost certainly direct ancestors of Homo sapiens. While the total number of species that existed and the relationships among them is still unknown, the picture becomes clearer as new fossils are found. Humans evolved through the same biological processes that govern the evolution of all life on Earth. See "What is evolution?", "How does natural selection work?", and "How do organisms evolve?"
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Morty said:
If it's this I really hope this isn't what you think evolution actually is.
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And if I do believe that? The movie basically states what everyones been saying. We evolve from apes. The creatures even evolved to primates at somepoint in the movie.
 
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